{"id":568847,"date":"2026-01-29T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/568847\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:45:15","slug":"mavericks-trade-pitch-doubles-down-trades-5-player-cooper-flagg-package-for-giannis-antetokounmpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/568847\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks trade pitch doubles down, trades 5-player Cooper Flagg package for Giannis Antetokounmpo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mavericks trade pitch doubles down, trades 5-player Cooper Flagg package for Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> traded away Luka Doncic just about a year ago.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

What if they wanted to double down right now and trade away Cooper Flagg too?<\/p>\n

It’s probably an outlandish idea, but it’s one floated by Yahoo Sports writer Morten Stig Jensen in a new article<\/a> exploring trade possibilities for Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n

It would give the Mavs a potential veteran-laden Big Three, if everyone can stay healthy.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Bronny James puts up impressive highlights in LeBron’s return to Cleveland<\/a><\/p>\n

This is what the proposed package would be:<\/p>\n

Bucks get:\u00a0Cooper Flagg, Daniel Gafford, Klay Thompson, Caleb Martin, Naji Marshall, and 2032 DAL first<\/p>\n

Mavericks get:\u00a0Giannis Antetokounmpo, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Gary Harris, and Taurean Prince<\/p>\n

It’s not a ton of assets going with Flagg, although Marshall’s game has taken a major step up this season.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

“The Bucks get the league’s most intriguing under-20 prospect, along with a group of role players who could, potentially, be moved individually down the line,” Stig Jensen writes.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks would all of a sudden shorten their contention timeline considerably, again.<\/p>\n

“Dallas, obviously, adds Antetokounmpo to a core of Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving, in the hopes of forming a ridiculously effective Big Three. It’s expensive, but it’d create much-needed buzz in Dallas,” Stig Jensen writes.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Cavs’ Nae’Qwan Tomlin didn’t even play high school basketball<\/a><\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

The article calls the quality of the Dallas trade package on offer an A-minus, but says the deal likelihood would only be a 2-out-of-5.<\/p>\n

Given where the Mavericks are in the current standings, it probably makes much more sense to build around Flagg than to trade him away.<\/p>\n

More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mavericks trade pitch doubles down, trades 5-player Cooper Flagg package for Giannis Antetokounmpo originally appeared on The Sporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[495,7,1006,6461,136,305,225,686,149,4057,2619,404,123,498,967,516,368,166,121,33026,75489,5989,6,281,12289,490,27061],"class_list":["post-568847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-anthony-davis","tag-basketball","tag-bronny-james","tag-caleb-martin","tag-cavs","tag-cleveland","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-daniel-gafford","tag-gary-harris","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-klay-thompson","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-lebron","tag-luka-doncic","tag-mavericks","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-morten-stig-jensen","tag-nae39qwan-tomlin","tag-naji-marshall","tag-nba","tag-taurean-prince","tag-thanasis-antetokounmpo","tag-the-mavericks","tag-trade-possibilities"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115979402045359349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}